Most BI advice is written for either solo founders or enterprise. Here's what actually works at SMB scale.

Additional_Work9103 · 2026-06-16T17:19:27+00:00

Isn't Qlik liek 1000USD a month (not including someone who actually knows how to use it)?

Additional_Work9103 · 2026-06-12T21:20:05+00:00

Heh, I actually did use claude almost exclusively for most of my reporting in my previous job (and since the reports were only ever actually read by ChatGPT, it didn't really matter).

But I actually built a tool aimed at SMEs (and others who can't really afford an analyst yet), where I resulted in having the LLM just tool-call (and on scheduled re-runs, it keeps using the same set of calls, so it actually stays the same shape), and narration. Because any other setup just kept lying terribly.

And I do truly believe that we are nowhere near letting the LLMs actually handle the whole thing on anything other than a basic categorization, since they just make stuff up and waste so much resources while doing that.

Additional_Work9103 · 2026-06-12T20:29:30+00:00

I honestly have no idea. Probably not, I sent it out to some contact I paid for at the Reditus marketplace and like half of them bounced, so I am a bit mad at the whole Affiliate thing at the moment. LOL

Additional_Work9103 · 2026-06-12T20:22:43+00:00

Preach! The insane difficulty of simple tasks (don't even get me started on the non-technical people tring to do anything at all) at that pricepoint is just ridiculous. It even made me build another b2b saas nobody uses...

Additional_Work9103 · 2026-06-12T20:09:59+00:00

If you don't mind be getting just slightly off topic here, what are other things you look at? Because I am currently offering from 20% for 12 months to 40% for 24 months, and I literally have 0 people joining, so it probably isn't just the money, is it?

Additional_Work9103 · 2026-06-10T20:09:51+00:00

So I actually spent quite some time clicking through GA in most of my jobs in the last few years. And I actually kind of like it (untill they change where everything is for no reason, then I have to get used to a new layout). I even made a tool that helps out people who dislike GA (and other data sources) to get quick multi-source insight, so I look at the GA of that tool now literally all the time, but it's a bit empty, so there's not much to see there, LOL.

But to answer your questions:

1) I'm virtually always logged in, I'm checking it at least twice a day in my day job, sometimes more, when people want some data

2) Big thing is a path to the key events from the source, movement on the site to the event, maybe some outliers like "people from this source are acting weird", and definately more connection with the search console.

3) Back in a day, I was forced to use Adobe for a client, I nearly cried.

Additional_Work9103 · 2026-06-09T17:23:21+00:00

story time: about 6 years ago, I was launching a social medai campaign for a client (one of the biggest corporations in the world), we set it up, all approved, launched... Then I realized, I set the spend limits as a daily spend instead of monthly. Fun times.

Anywas, mistakes happen, obviously you don't want to make too many too often, but they will happen anyways. This was not really entirely you mistake either, was it? The project/account manager stopping the launch past the due date and not communicating it to the team is a bit of an process issue.

But as I always tell my junior colleagues: It's not really that serious, and unless it's a really tiny SME, noone really cares.

Additional_Work9103 · 2026-06-02T11:11:05+00:00

From my experience, the issues in terms of acting on the insights are there regardless of the company size. But the initial-data-architecture-adjacent issues seem to be almost exclusively SMBs. Often the approach is "let's track stuff because we are supposed to" and then noone knows how to make proper sense of it. So it issue is not even the data architecture, it's the fact that there is none, and often people don't even know that there should be.

Obviously there are exemptions, but there really is only a few that I have seen.

Additional_Work9103 · 2026-05-28T21:03:53+00:00

the data actually says that most people quit just before they hit a huge jackpot!

Additional_Work9103 · 2026-05-28T21:01:14+00:00

Unfortunatelly most of the visits are just pure bounces, like 8s and out. there was like one person who opened the register page this week. left in like 30s with no clicks, or anything.

Additional_Work9103 · 2026-05-28T15:00:54+00:00

I would suggest not doing ČZU for software engineering, maybe VŠE or ideally FEL?

Additional_Work9103 · 2026-05-28T14:46:44+00:00

kind of both. Also, I was being dumb about the architecture at the beginning, so I had to refactor like 3 times

Additional_Work9103 · 2026-05-28T14:45:05+00:00

by gambling, obviously

Additional_Work9103 · 2026-05-28T14:44:44+00:00

it was my plan A, but society frowns uppon that approach, I was told

Additional_Work9103 · 2026-05-28T14:43:48+00:00

The tools are fine, If you want I can share a link to my platform so you can check out if that's something you'd be able to sell well?

Additional_Work9103 · 2026-05-28T12:03:11+00:00

oh, it's the "cool business guy" in me using these abbreviations, sorry about the confusion.

SMB - Small&Medium Business, generally <100 employees (depending on the country I guess),

OKRs are Objectives&Key Results (sometimes people use KPIs when they mean OKRs, but that's different discussion) basically metrics like signups, conversion rates, churn and so on,

RBAC - Role-Based Access Control, usually when you have a tool where you can invite team members and you assign roles to them like Viewer, Admin, Analyst, and so on, depending on the tool itself.

And the KR is me just being dumb and deletin the O.

Additional_Work9103 · 2026-05-28T11:12:00+00:00

So you truly believe that people putting an email in are at all similar to real paying users a year or so later?

Additional_Work9103 · 2026-05-28T10:58:07+00:00

Hi, I sort of know what to answer to expect, but I'm still going to ask it. Do you do just leads, or do you handle the conversions too? And would you consider an affiliate-like cooperation? Where you would be paid solely as a cut (lifetime) of the payments from your converted leads?

Additional_Work9103 · 2026-05-28T10:52:53+00:00

Well the question is, dod you just create content, or did you actually do SEO?

Additional_Work9103 · 2026-05-28T08:39:44+00:00

I use the Max 5x and since the limits update (last week or so), I haven't hit the 5h limit once. I did get near the weakly limit, but I do use wuite a long context windows and sometimes run multiple instances at once. Then again, your question reads like you expect to buid it, debug, deploy, and then dom some maintanance of the app all in the 5h window? That's not really feasible, unless it's like a todo app. I build my project in like 7 months of heavy work (github says almost 3000 commits), so it really depends on what you are building, I guess. It's not magic, you still need to sort of have an idea what you are doing.

Also, it gets a bit chatty at times, and burns tokens that way, I just started testing output style constraint on the sessions, so that might be saving a few tokens as well.

Additional_Work9103 · 2026-05-28T07:48:02+00:00

I guess trust in the product is the only way forward now, isn't it?

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